[jsword-devel] jsword in linux

[Joe Walker]

Hi,

Most of my development is done on Windows right now, and I don't get to 
test on Linux as often as I would like.
I know about the path you mentioned. It is editable via the options 
dialog so you shouldn't have to hack up the file. I would like a better 
way of guessing the installed Sword directory, but not had time to 
tackle the problem yet.
It is not easy to solve - portably between 
Redhat/Debian/etc/MacOS/Windows find if Sword has been installed and where!

Joe.

Michael A. Peters wrote:

>I'm running Linux with the blackdown j2sdk (1.4.1_01 gcc 3.2)
>
>Initially when I launch jsword via the shell script I got errors telling
>me it couldn't find something in the C drive - which makes sense if
>that's where it is looking ;)
>
>I'm not a java person (personally I don't like the look of Java on Linux
>- no decent AA font rendering etc. - but gnomesword isn't ported to
>gnome2 yet and I don't have/want the gnome 1.4 libs) but grep was my
>friend, and I found the C path hard coded in some *.properties file.
>
>Changes those to /usr/share/sword - and it worked (as long as I don't
>click the button complaining about the look and feel).
>Anyway - looking at the web page for jsword, it says testing is done on
>both Windows and Linux.
>
>I'm curious as to why then it didn't work out of tarball on my linux box
>- and instead seems to use Windows setting for stuff.
>
>Is there any info about my java environment that you guys might need to
>help track it down?
>
>I'm guessing it would be something very simple to fix.
>
>http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/jsword_error.png
>http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/jsword-linux.png
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